My red support for equality

Hi. Welcome to my blog. My name is Chuck Miller, and I’ve been a part of the Times Union family of community bloggers since August of 2009. In that timespan, I’ve written more than 1,800 blogs on everything from photography to trivia, from the highs and lows of my life, from every triumph and stumble, every vilification and vindication.

But you might notice something different about today’s blog.

Yeah. It’s all in red.

No, your monitor has not burned out. No, you have not developed any sort of color blindness. No, tomorrow’s blog won’t feature the wonders of Comic Sans fonts.

Today’s blog post is printed in a red font in support of marriage equality. People are encouraged to wear red today in support of marriage equality; some of my Facebook friends have replaced their profile pictures with red “equal” signs. Today the Supreme Court is arguing the validity of Hollingsworth v. Perry, 704 F.Supp.2d 921 (N.D. Cal., 2010); Certified question, 628 F.3d 1191 (9th. Cir.); Answered 52 Cal.4th 1116 (2011), 671 F.3d 1052 (2013), which challenges California’s Proposition 8 which states that legal marriage in California can only be between a man and a woman. And with all that in mind, I decided to show my support for marriage equality by turning today’s blog into a crimson hue.

Currently my daughter Cassaundra is engaged to her girlfriend Katie. There are so many states that support marriage equality, and so many others that dictate marriage can only be true if it’s one man to one woman. The choice for me is clear. Besides being Cassaundra’s father, I’m also her “straight ally” in all of this. I want her to get married to the person that makes her happy. And she shouldn’t have to look for which state allows it and which ones don’t.

There’s really only one reason for any sort of marriage-equality act to be approved. And it’s not to prop up business for wedding planners and wedding photographers and the like. And it’s not to drive couples to various states to get their marriage licenses and therefore drive tourist dollars to that state or commonwealth.

Let those who wish to do so marry in peace and in comfort, without fear of retribution or castigation or denigration or vilification. Marriage equality means you can marry whomever you love, whomever you want to spend the rest of your life with. And marriage equality even includes if you’re a man and you want to marry a woman. That’s equal, too.

In the end, that’s all that matters.

And if you’re looking for posts from my blog on photography or trivia or my car or whatever album I want to be buried with… they’ll be saved for future blog posts.

And I promise that the font for those posts will be black. Without Comic Sans.